Ephemera, 1931-1978.

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Ephemera, 1931-1978.

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Newsletters of the Association, 1964-1968; catalogs and brochures from exhibits, 1931-1978, including a regional exhibit of the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project, 1935; brochures on classes offered by the Association, 1977-1978; and miscellaneous pamphlets on art and artists.

.2 cubic ft.

Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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United States. Works Progress Administration

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Organizational History President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1935 as a part of his New Deal to curtail the Depression's effects on the United States. The WPA attempted to provide the unemployed with jobs that allowed individuals to preserve skills or talents. The Federal Writers' Project (FWP), one branch of the WPA, provided work for over 6,600 unemployed writers, journalists, edit...

Dutchess County Art Association (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.)

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Federal Art Project

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The FAP projects included a broad range of events and activities which generated the various publications and materials found in the central files of the general subject series. ART FOR THE MILLIONS was a publication project about the accomplishments of the FAP consisting of a series of articles by Project workers. In addition to creating work for artists, the FAP sought to increase art appreciation as well as art sales among the general public. In doing so it devised a plan which created Nation...